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> Legal reasoning from made‐up examples is generally a bad idea What? That's the only way to do legal reasoning, and as an obvious consequence it's how both la
by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> Legal reasoning from made‐up examples is generally a bad idea
What? That's the only way to do legal reasoning, and as an obvious consequence it's how both lawyers and judges do it.
- db48x 2y agoI would be better to quote the actual text of the law than to make up a silly hypothetical on the spot, but that would be more work. Even better would be to quote from some case where a judge has applied the law to actual events.